Terreblanche murder is 'declaration of war' by blacksSouth African President Jacob Zuma has called for calm as supporters of white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche said his murder was a "declaration of war" by blacks.

Members of the far-Right AWB threatened vengeance after he was beaten to death in a dispute with two farm workers over unpaid wages.

Police said he was attacked to the head with a machete and a club in his bed at his farm outside Ventersdorp, North West province, on Saturday night.

Two men, aged 21 and 15, have been charged with murder and will appear in court on Tuesday.

Andre Visagie, the AWB's secretary-general and a leading candidate to succeed Mr Terreblanche as head of the organisation, said the party was planning its response.

"The death of Mr Terreblanche is a declaration of war by the black community of South Africa to the white community that has been killed for ten years on end," he said.

He said there was "fierce anger" among AWB members.

"They all call for revenge for Eugene TerreBlanche's death," he said. "There are people who threatened to start with violence. We encourage them to wait until we can launch co-ordinated actions at one time right across the country."

He refused to rule out violence "if we don't have any option" and appealed for foreign intervention, including the provision of arms, "to assist us to defend us in this country where the white man is being murdered every day".

The ruling African National Congress disputed Visagie's statement and Mr Zuma called the killing a "terrible deed".

"South Africans not to allow agent provocateurs to take advantage of this situation by inciting or fuelling racial hatred," he said. "The murder of Terreblanche must be condemned, irrespective of how his killers think they may have been justified. They had no right to take his life."

Jackson Mthembu, ANC spokesman, added: "The black community has never declared war on any other nationality in South Africa. It is in fact incorrect and these are sentiments that fuel polarisation of the South African populace."

Nathi Mthethwa, the police minister, visited the scene of the killing, a homestead surrounded by rolling fields on the highveld plateau in North West province.

He said: "We really appeal to people not to make inflammatory statements, no matter where they come from, because they are not going to be helpful."

Mr Terreblanche, 69, rose to prominence in the 1980s, campaigning for a separate white homeland and championing a tiny minority determined to preserve apartheid.

He was known for his fiery rhetoric and his white supremacist movement mounted a bombing campaign to defend apartheid. He later serving a prison sentence for the attempted murder of a black security guard.

His death came amid an ongoing controversy over the ANC Youth Leader, Julius Malema, singing an apartheid-era song that advocates killing white farmers at a rally. A South African court has ruled the song, which includes the line 'Kill the Boer', is illegal but the ANC has defended it as part of its heritage from the struggle against apartheid. Boer is Afrikaans for a farmer, but is often used as a disparaging term for any white in South Africa.

Opposition parties have called for called for action and highlighted the fact that more than 3,000 white farmers are estimated to have been murdered since the end of apartheid in 1994.

There is growing disenchantment among blacks in South Africa for whom the right to vote has not translated into jobs and better housing and education.

Some consider themselves betrayed by leaders governing the richest country on the continent and pursuing a policy of black empowerment that has made millionaires of a tiny black elite while millions remain trapped in poverty, even as whites continue to enjoy a privileged lifestyle.

Visagie told Sapa the party blamed Malema directly for creating the atmosphere of hatred which had led to their cruelly-slain elderly leader’s martyrdom. In a telephonic interview with the South African Press Association, Visagie said there would be "revenge" – but what form this would take would be decided on later – after Mr Terre’Blanche’s funeral.

Only then would the various Afrikaner- and Boer groups get together for a May 1 summit conference in Pretoria. “All our leaders and members of the AWB will come together and decide on what actions we will take to revenge Terre'Blanche's death. Our leader's death is directly linked to Julius Malema's banned 'shoot the Boer' hate-song," said Visagie. Many Afrikaner- and Boer-families have broken off their holidays and returned home in preparation of the Terre’Blanche funeral. View Malema’s hates-speech singing below on this YouTube video in which he openly defied the Jan 2 2010 Gauteng High Court ruling banning the African National Congress member and leaders from singing it publicly because it ’incited violence against a vulnerable minority:”

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The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) has vowed to exact revenge for the death of their leader as the country's president, Jacob Zuma, sought to calm growing racial tensions.

Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the AWB movement, was found bludgeoned and hacked to death on Saturday at his farm in Ventersdorp. Two black farm workers involved in an apparent wage dispute were arrested at the scene.

The AWB has since ramped up the language of a race war. Its spokesperson, Andre Visagie, said: "The death of Mr Terre'Blanche is a declaration of war by the black community of South Africa to the white community that has been killed for 10 years on end."

Land of murderVisagie warned other countries to avoid sending their teams to the Soccer World Cup in June as they would be travelling "to a land of murder". He added: "We will decide upon the action we are going to take to avenge Mr Terre'Blanche's death."

The AWB accused African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema of having blood on his hands. It blamed the killing on his recent singing of the apartheid-era protest song Ayesaba Amagwala [The Cowards are Scared].

Malema expressed fear that his life was at risk, citing a right-wing conspiracy. Last week the ANC said it was concerned about an SMS in circulation which appeared to offer a bounty for his death. The ANC has defended the song as no more than a way to remember a history of oppression, but a party spokesperson said it would now re-examine the issue in the light of recent criticism.

On Sunday at Ventersdorp, in the North West Province, AWB followers clad in paramilitary khaki laid flowers at the gate of Terre'Blanche's farm.

The 69-year-old was killed by two farm workers who claimed that he refused to pay them their monthly salaries of R350 rand each. The workers, aged 21 and 15, reportedly smashed a window to enter Terre'Blanche's home and killed him with a knobkerrie and a panga. A police source told the Sunday Times the pair alleged Terre'Blanche had threatened to kill them when they went to his farm for their money. "They claim they killed him in self defence," the officer said.

The men, who were said to have waited for police to arrive and arrest them, are due to appear in court on Tuesday.

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The killing sparked fierce debate on race relations in a country where white farmers have become increasingly vocal, claiming thousands of them have been murdered since the end of white minority rule in 1994.

Last month the former president F W De Klerk wrote to Zuma warning that Malema was creating an increasingly febrile mood. He said: "All this is beginning to create a volatile atmosphere in which any additional intemperate statement or action might spark an unfortunate incident."

Explosive caseFrans Cronje, deputy director of the South African Institute of Race Relations, said: "It could be an explosive case, especially if the ANC don't back down."

Zuma appealed for calm following the "terrible deed". In a statement he asked South Africans not to allow "agent provocateurs" to take advantage of the situation by "inciting or fuelling racial hatred".

Political leaders in South Africa must "think" before they make statements, which could be "misunderstood", Zuma said on South African Broadcasting Corporation radio on Saturday.

"This happening must indeed say to us as leaders we need to think before we make statements in public that might be misunderstood to be encouraging the opposite of what we are trying to do -- to build our new nation -- irrespective of what quarter they come from, so that no one could attempt to say that what we say is not helping the process of nation-building"

On Sunday night, Zuma said calm needed to prevail in South Africa.

"All leaders who lead this country, from different political formations and non-governmental organisations, should unite in the call for calm.

"I know for a fact that those who have been close to Mr Terre'Blanche, they must be feeling a pain, but it is this time that we take our leadership responsibility to make this country unite in calling for a stop of violence," said Zuma. "Violent crime must be stopped and defeated by all of us."

Zuma, who said Terre'Blanche's murder was a "sad moment" for the country termed the act "cowardly".

"I condemn this cowardly act and the murder of Mr Terre'Blanche. It's not acceptable in our society. In due course we will know what is it that led to this terrible action."

'Has-been personality'Jackson Mthembu, an ANC spokesperson, also denied any causal link between the protest song and the murder of Terre'Blanche. But he also appeared to shift the party's position: "The ANC is prepared to look at whether it is appropriate to continue singing it in this manner. We will ... look at what we can do."

The opposition Democratic Alliance warned of a risk of polarisation with a dangerous outcome. Leader Helen Zille, said: "The murder of Eugene Terre'Blanche will inevitably polarise and inflame passions in South Africa at a time when tensions are already running high ... This could have tragic consequences and it is essential that all leaders stand together now and call for calm."

Terre'Blanche had threatened war on South Africa's white minority government in the 1980s when it began to make what he considered dangerous concessions that endangered South Africa's white race. Described yesterday as a bully and buffoon, his predictions of doom under a multiracial democracy proved hollow and his support dwindled to a tiny rump.

The attack came as South Africa's readied to showcase 16 years of democracy at the football World Cup in June.

President Jacob Zuma was quick to call for calm early on Sunday, just hours after Terre'Blanche's bloodied body was found on his farm.

His extremist AWB, which carried out a wave of deadly bombings ahead of South Africa's first all-race polls in 1994, also urged calm.

The AWB, known for its swastika-style emblem and paramilitary style in the past, said it would co-ordinate its reaction at a meeting on May 1.

But some of its members have called for an immediate reprisal.

"The right-wing movement in general is very fragmented," said analyst Dirk Kotze at the University of South Africa.

"We cannot expect something as a general retaliation in terms of big, major events."

But he added: "What might be a possibility is very much isolated, singular events which are very exceptionally difficult to predict."

Aubrey Matshiqi of the Centre for Policy Studies, which describes itself as an independent policy research body, agreed.

"I do not believe this killing takes us closer to racial civil war," saiid Matshiqi.

"He and his organisation were on the fringe not only of South African politics but on the fringe of even what we'd call white or even Afrikaner politics."

AWB links death to song

Terre'Blanche's radical AWB group have linked his killing to a controversial refrain from a sung adopted by the controversial ruling party youth leader Julius Malema: "kill the Boer", the Afrikaans word for farmer.

Zuma's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has said the song is part of the the history of South Africa's liberation struggle.

Nevertheless, the controversy over the song and now Terre'Blanche's brutal killing had created a delicate situation, said David Bruce, a senior researcher at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.

"The combination of that song and that killing creates the motivation for a white right-wing mobilisation... but potentially, the security agencies will be able to neutralise these kind of things," he said.

"Terre'Blanche could be seen as an embodiment of the kind of enemy described in the song," he said: but the term was also likely to tap into fears of whites, who number some 10% of the population.

"The term Boer has no strict boundary: it can refer to the white farmers, to the Afrikaners or to the whites in general. That's what makes a lot of people afraid," said Bruce.

"A lot of people see in that song a general endorsement of violence against white people."

Marginalised presence

South Africa is one of the world's most crime-affected nations with a daily average of 50 murders.

And more than a decade after the fall of the apartheid system, massive social divisions along race lines persist.

Far-right extremism remains a marginalised but shady presence: a marathon treason trial against 21 right-wingers, which started in 2003, is still dragging through the courts.

The government's calls for calm after Terre'Blanche's killing, echoed by opposition parties, was prompted by uncertainty about conservative reaction or retaliation, said Kotze.

"That can ignite, it can serve as a catalyst for much more serious problems."

Zuma on Sunday urged politicians to show unity, saying it was their responsibility to "stay away from statements that might reverse nation building and racial cohesion".

"It is a key test for the leadership of Jacob Zuma: he has to make minority groups feel more secure and to distance himself from Malema," said political analyst Daniel Silke.

"If Zuma shows leadership, then we will avoid retaliation or an escalation of violence."

4/5/2010 11:45:19 AM those who entice the population to kill other people should be brought to book IMMEDIATELY by arresting them and bring them to court Big Guns

4/5/2010 11:50:13 AM Looking at these pictures - why are the policemen arriving with Big Guns? Looking like they are about to face combat? Peet

4/5/2010 11:53:01 AM If only Zuma had reputed Malema when he had the change... Maans

4/5/2010 12:05:33 PM So sad that we can lose all we achieved in the last ten years. Lets show tolerance and faith Francois

4/5/2010 12:06:16 PM However wrong ET has been in voicing his feelings on his racial preferences, the same can be said of Malema in voicing his racial preferences. Who is wrong and who is right? Both opinions does not lead to racial harmony. Steve

4/5/2010 12:13:59 PM It is with sock and shame for us overseas watching this unnecessary events unfolding in South Africa. Most blame should be placed in front of the current government who allowed tension in SA to reach to this point! Songs and in particular with the words “kill the boer” is unacceptable and should be punished with jail sentence for minimum 20 years. Acts like this is not reconciling but dividing a nation! How can reconciliation take place if the government allow such acts? No argument to allow this should even be allowed or considered, the current government failed all people in SA to not take a serious stance against this. It is similar towards the crime waves ruining South Africa’s future for all. If such song is allowed in the US it will result in violence. For too long has the current SA government turned a blind eye and should now face some of the consequences. The act of killing any person should be punished by the highest court and as such is the need of the death penalty required. It is a pity in the wake of the Soccer World Cup that this is the message SA is sending to the world. What a shame on the ANC government who not just failed South African citizens but also the world and the good that Nelson Mandela and FD De Klerk performed! Frank Smith (UK)

4/5/2010 12:19:06 PM Eugene Terreblanche was a racist who was not representative of me as white South African,he lived by violence and died through violence . Reconciliation and tolerance is what this country needs not rhetoric and hate speech.... Reinardt Bronkhorst

4/5/2010 12:24:41 PM The SACC really should shut the hell up. You have no idea how to lead people anyway. If your collective religions were worth anything people like Malema and ET would not have become who they are. Go home, read your bible, stay out of politics and teach people to live decent lives before commenting on anything again! Bunch of morons! Nic

4/5/2010 12:27:01 PM Why should everyone suddenly stay calm if for too long killing of farmers were allowed. To stay calm is like turning a blind eye towards the injustice. I think the real Boer has now been driven towards a point of not accepting and tolerating any injustice. This killing of Eugene Terre'Blance may be the turning point to stop the long overdue unnecessary killing of farmers. No human deserve to die in this inhumane manner! Unfortunately calls for calm will not ease the pain and hatred caused by killing of farmers and the violence that is allowed in South Africa. It is time the government start saving the day by taking serious action against crime and violence or face the consequences. http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/44c4c02d79b14e46a83ebbd714c589e4/05-04-2010-11-37/Churches_call_for_reconciling_leadership

Ventersdorp - The mother of a 15-year-old murder suspect told Associated Press Television News on Monday that her son says he struck AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche with an iron rod after the farmer refused to pay him.

"My son admitted that they did the killing," the mother said in an exclusive interview conducted in Tswana from her two-room cement home in Tshing township, on the outskirts of Ventersdorp.

She said she spoke to the teenager at the Ventersdorp police station on Saturday after he turned himself in along with his alleged accomplice, also a farm worker.

Police have refused to identify either of the suspects by name. By law, a minor accused of any charge cannot be identified without permission from a judge.

The AWB planned to march on Monday to the police station to demand the police bring out the two suspects.

'My son doesn't like to be in trouble'

Police say the two have been charged with murder and will appear in court on Tuesday.

The mother said her son told her that when he and his co-worker asked Terre'Blanche for their money, he told them first to bring in the cows. After they had brought in the cows they again asked for their money, which he then refused to give them.

"He said that the man (farm worker) told him to wait while he went to the storeroom. He came back with an iron rod. He started hitting Terre'Blanche, with four blows to the head. Then my son says he took the iron rod and hit him with three blows," the mother said.

She appeared a bit bewildered and scared. "My son was a person who doesn't like to be in trouble," she said softly.

At the farm on Monday, a big grader was being used to dig a hole for Terre'Blanche in the family graveyard, where he is to be buried after a church service in Ventersdorp on Friday.

'We are not racists'

"This was such an unnecessary thing," Terre'Blanche's brother, Andries, told the AP, as he sat on a grey marble grave. "We are not racists, we just believe in purity of race."

AWB leaders have been using Terre'Blanche's killing as a rallying point for their cause, with secretary-general Andre Visagie claiming on Sunday that Terre'Blanche's brutal death was "a declaration of war" by blacks against whites.

He also warned countries against sending their soccer teams without protection to "a land of murder".

Visagie said the teenager was a casual worker and that the older man was a full-time employee of Terre'Blanche, who had been taking care of the garden of the family home in Ventersdorp.

Police said Terre'Blanche was lying on his bed in the farmhouse outside the town when he was attacked, between 17:00 and 18:00 on Saturday.

Visagie and other members of the group have blamed African National Congress Youth leader Julius Malema, saying he spread hate speech that led to Terre'Blanche's killing.

'Not hate speech'

Malema incited controversy last month when he led college students in a song that included the lyrics "shoot the boer".

The song sparked a legal battle in which the ANC challenged a High Court that ruled the lyrics as unconstitutional.

The ANC insists the song is a valuable part of its cultural heritage and that the lyrics - which also refer to the farmers as thieves and rapists - are not intended literally and are therefore not hate speech.

Terre'Blanche, a bearded, charismatic 69-year-old, co-founded and led the AWB. Its red, white and black insignia resembles a Nazi swastika, but with three prongs instead of four.

Terre'Blanche emerged in the 1970s and threatened to take the country by force if white rule ended. He was known to arrive at meetings on horseback flanked by masked bodyguards dressed in khaki or black.

After serving six years in prison for attacking two black workers, he re-emerged in 2004 with renewed vigour for his cause.

He lived in relative obscurity in recent years on his farm outside Ventersdorp, about 110km northwest of Johannesburg.

Visagie said that was where Terre'Blanche had been spending most of his time since he had heart surgery a few weeks ago.

Johannesburg - The ANC Youth League president Julius Malema's singing of a traditional ANC struggle song, containing the words "shoot the boer" should not be linked to the murder of Eugene Terre'Blanche.

"The ANC is concerned and worried about the continued utterances by some political parties, particularly the AWB, Freedom Front [Plus] and AfriForum, who have linked the death to the singing by Malema of the struggle song 'Ayesaba amagwala' (cowards are running) in some recent public gatherings," African National Congress spokesperson Jackson Mthembu said in a statement.

He said any claims that blacks intended to harm other race groups, in particular whites, were "baseless and devoid of all truth".

Mthembu said the police had not established any link between the two during their preliminary investigations in the killing of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre'Blanche.

Terre'Blanche was murdered on Saturday after an alleged labour dispute with his two farmworkers.

A 21-year-old man and boy, 15, were arrested and charged with the killing and would appear in court on Tuesday.

"It is our belief that the continued linkage of the singing of the song by Comrade Malema to the killing of Mr Terre'Blanche, is not only mischievous but also inciteful and meant to fuel racial polarisation in our country during a highly emotion-charged and sensitive moment," Mthembu said.

He said the "repeated lie" was also meant to cause harm in the person of Malema.

"It is our view that this concerted campaign against the ANCYL president waged by certain organisations in our society, including the Freedom Front (Plus), might lead to unintended consequences that South Africa cannot afford."

Mthembu said the time(s) called for all South Africans to unite, mourn the death and bury Terre'Blanche with the dignity and respect he deserves without name-calling or blame apportioning.

"The ANC once again calls on all political parties and (the) South African society to leave the investigation to the police."

"Let us not add fuel to an already very sensitive atmosphere in the wake of Mr Terre'Blanche's death by making unfounded and dangerous speculative statements."|

Ventersdorp - Police had to separate black and white groups with razor wire as tension mounted outside the Ventersdorp Magistrate's Court on Tuesday ahead of the appearance of two people expected to be charged with the murder of AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche.

This was after a group of white people hit and pushed a group of black people outside the court after they sang the old and new national anthems at each other ahead of the appearance of the two farm workers accused of murdering Terre'Blanche on Saturday.

Police wedged themselves into the middle of the group to separate them and then pushed the black group away and began erecting razor wire to separate them.

Physical confrontation

The fracas began when the white supporters of Terre'Blanche started singing Die Stem, South Africa's apartheid era anthem, and the black observers outside the court in return sang the old version of Nkosi Sikeleli Afrika.

The physical confrontation was believed to have started when a white woman sprayed the instant drink Kool Aid at one of the black people singing.

Themba Mbatha, from Ekurhuleni, who had been the target, said: "We are not here to fight and the worst thing that they did now is to separate us with barbed wire."

He said they came in solidarity with farm workers, because they understood their battles.

Terre'Blanche headed the far right wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) organisation, and his death was being linked to ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema's singing of the song "Shoot the boer".

Armoured vehicle stuck

As the police were unrolling the razor wire from their armoured vehicle, they drove into a ditch and got stuck, setting off the singing of the Afrikaner folk song "o, help 'n bietjie daar" (lend a hand), with some of the white people shouting, "find a boer and a tractor" and laughing at the police as they struggled to complete their task of separating the two races.

The white group then sang "Bobbejaan klim die berg" (the baboon climbs the mountain), before a farmer appealed for calm.

Ventersdorp - The AWB claims to have had at least 3 000 applications from new members since its leader Eugene Terre'Blanche was murdered, spokesperson Pieter Steyn said on Tuesday.

"People say they are gatvol (fed up)," said Steyn outside the Ventersdorp Magistrate's Court, where two people were due to appear in connection with the murder of the leader of the far right wing group on Saturday.

Steyn said people had contacted them by telephone, via the internet, and had arrived at their offices, asking to become members.

Two newly joined AWB members, Shaun Labuschagne from Brakpan and his friend Dirkie Cronwright from Boksburg, were among the hundreds of people waiting for the court to open.

"We do not want to be excluded with whatever’s going to happen,” said Labuschagne, 31.

Both joined the AWB at the movement’s Ventersdorp head office on Monday night.

“The gun has been loaded a long time ago. They just pulled the trigger now,” said Cronwright, 26, who owns a cash loans and labour firm in Boksburg.

Situation extremely explosive

Labuschagne, who has two young daughters, said: “If you see what is happening around you, you need to make preparations.”

Gerhardus Brits, 35, from Mookgopong (formerly Naboomspruit), came to show solidarity to “my people”.

Brits, who is not an AWB member, came through alone on Tuesday morning, but said he expected about 15 to 20 friends to join him later in the day.

“I am here for the survival of our volk (people). To show we live. To show we are not going to be trampled on. If they bite we are going to bite back.”

He said the situation was extremely “explosive”.

“What happens here can have extremely serious repercussions.”

He said some people had to die for others to live.

“If you or I die there will only be a small article in the newspaper, but when a man like this dies, the world will see it," said Brits, who added that he had lost friends and family in farm attacks.

The AWB is linking Terre'Blanche's murder to ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema's singing of a song that contains the lyrics "shoot the boer".

KVB00002The retraction of the AWB's comments to me are cowardly - unless they are just a smoke-screen!

Basically the blacks are laughing their heads off at us cowardly whites!

Dear KVB00002

Time will tell. Every action always leads to a reaction, which in turn, becomes and action thus turning into a reaction. In other words - The wheel has a way of turning. But it is not part of a human wheel nor the human plan.

Eugene Terreblanche "White supremacist" smear campaignTuesday, April 6, 2010 - 11:23 ..There has come a misconception of what Eugene Terreblanche was and what he represented. People think he was a white supremacist and that he represented apartheid at it's worst. But if you really look into it and listen to his beliefs and understand the history of the Boere, you would understand that this is not true.

Eugene Terreblanche was a nationalist, that is a person who believes that their nation, in this case Boere, should be free to rule themselves in their own territory.

na·tion·al·ism

(nsh-n-lzm, nshn-) n.

1. Devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation.2. The belief that nations will benefit from acting independently rather than collectively, emphasizing national rather than international goals.3. Aspirations for national independence in a country under foreign domination.Past nationalist existed all over the world, the main difference from these and from what Terreblanche believed is that he did not want the whole country only part of it. Before he went to prison his view was much more radical and he was known as a tyrant among the blacks. He treated them terribly but after prison he was a changed man. His neighbours have commented that his people on his farm are some of the best looked after around there and one of his workers who was interviewed said that after Terreblanche came out he was a changed man, he even liked the children.

World wide they would like to paint a picture of a man who hates black people, that's just not true. Here is something he said not to long ago:

We fought the British Commonwealth, we can survive the ANC, The white man in South Africa is realizing that his salvation lies in self-government, in territories paid for by his ancestors. We still have the title deeds for land we bought from Africans – they are still valid and should be recognized by international law.

Even though some land where seized by the Apartheid government there are many farms that where bought and paid for from the native Africans. There are deeds, documented meetings with tribal leaders. The Voortrekker made their way up in South Africa by battering not bloodshed, the times there were bloodshed they were not the instigators. Then came the British colonial rule where they decided that the country should be segregated, if you look closely the Boere always tried to work with the black Africans but over the years it got twisted. Even Zuma has said in the speech the only valid white South Africans is the Afrikaner people, some has been here for 7 generations they cannot go anywhere else, they are no longer European.

One of the things that contribute to this image that the Eugene was a white supremacist, is the AWB flag, which looks like a swastika used by the Nazi's. People then assume they stem from there, which is far from the truth. A little small fact very few people know is that the very first concentration camp was in South Africa where over 100 000 wives and children of the Boere died in horrendous conditions. This was during the Boere-war, back then the black Africans and the Voortrekker's had a mutual enemy the British.

The AWB flaghttp://fromtheold.com/news/eugene-terreblanche-white-supremacist-smear-campaign-2010040617629.html

Ventersdorp - The two farm workers, aged 15 and 28, accused of killing AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche had not yet been charged by lunchtime on Tuesday, National Director of Public Prosecutions Menzi Simelane said.

Speaking to the media outside the Ventersdorp Magistrate's Court, Simelane said the prosecuting authority had met representatives from the community, the AWB and the community policing forum to explain how court proceedings would unfold.

"On April 1st this year, the Child Justice Act was implemented which had different procedures for children.

"We wanted to make sure that everyone understands what had to be done.

"We then had a formal court appearance where the provision of the act was explained to the legal representatives," he said.

In camera

Simelane explained that proceedings would be held in camera as one of the accused was a minor.

"Both have to appear together and we can't separate them, that's why it is being held in camera."

The accused had not appeared in court by 12.45 and remained in holding cells. They would appear shortly.

"They have not been charged yet but when the formal part of the case resumes... it will be decided whether the accused will apply for bail," he said.

The act facilitates diverting children away from the mainstream criminal justice system, providing for offenders under 18 years who commit an offence to be dealt with differently to the regular criminal justice procedures or laws.

Police had earlier said the 15-year-old accused had not been released into his parents' custody for his own safety.